Assignment Record – Rev. Edmund J. Robinson, s.j. Born: 1924 |
Start | Stop | Parish/Assignment | Town/Accusations | State | Position | Notes |
1955 San Francisco archbishop was John Joseph Mitty (1935-1961). |
Alma College | Los Gatos | CA | |||
1955 Great Falls bishop was William Joseph Condon (1939-1967). |
1958 | St. Paul's Indian Mission | Hays • Robinson was accused in a lawsuit against the diocese in 2017 of having raped a girl at the Mission in 1955. |
MT |
This is the first of three stints for Robinson at St. Paul's mission; the others were 1959-62 and 1966-68. His roles were as basketball coach, algebra teacher, superintendent and ethics teacher. |
This was a Gross Ventres and Assinboine Indian mission. St. Paul's had a day grade school with 48-59 boys and 46 girls, and a religious vacation school with 50 students. |
1956 | 1958 | St. Thomas | Lodge Pole | MT | This was a mission of St. Paul's Indian Mission in Hays. St. Thomas' had a religious vacations school with 20-45 students. | |
1956 | 1958 | St. Joseph's | Zortman | MT | This was a mission of St. Paul's Indian Mission in Hays. St. Joseph's had a religious vacations school with 28-22 students. | |
1957 | 1958 | Beaver Creek | MT | Beaver Creek was a station of St. Paul's Indian Mission in Hays. | ||
1958 Seattle archbishop was Thomas Arthur Connolly (1950-1975). |
1959 | Manresa Hall | Port Townsend | WA | Tertianship | |
1959 Great Falls diocese. |
1962 | St. Paul's Indian Mission | Hays • A man alleged in the 2017 lawsuit against the diocese that Robinson raped him as a child in 1959 at the mission. • A woman claimed in the same lawsuit that Robinson abused her verbally, physically and sexually in 1960 in Hays. In the suit, 21 people alleged abuse as children at St. Paul. Of them 8 men and women claimed abuse by Robinson. |
MT | 1/2
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St. Paul's had a grade school with 58-48 boys and 48-62 girls. |
1959 | 1962 | St. Thomas' | Lodge Pole | MT | This was a mission of St. Paul's Indian Mission in Hays. St. Thomas' had a religious vacation with 58-48 boys and 48-62 girls. | |
1959 | 1962 | St. Joseph's | Zortman | MT | This was a mission of St. Paul's Indian Mission in Hays. St. Joseph's had a religious vacation school with 15-20 students. | |
1959 | 1960 | Beaver Creek, Landusky, Cow Creek | MT | These were stations of St. Paul's Indian Mission in Hays. | ||
1962 Helena bishop was Raymond Gerhardt Hunthausen (1962-1975). |
1964 | St. Ignatius' | St. Ignatius
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MT | 2/4, 2/3 Pastor | |
1962 | 1964 | Sacred Heart | Arlee • Robinson was accused in 2011 of raping a 5-year-old girl in 1963, the morning after a Fourth of July pow-wow in Arlee. |
MT | This was a mission of St. Ignatius' in St. Ignatius. | |
1962 | 1964 | St. John Berchman's | Jocko | MT | This was a mission of St. Ignatius' in St. Ignatius. | |
1962 | 1964 | St. Leonard's |
Dixon | MT | This was a mission of St. Ignatius' in St. Ignatius. | |
1964 Spokane bishop was Bernard Joseph Topel (1955-1978). |
1966 | St. Mary's Indian Mission | Omak | WA | 1/2 | |
1964 | 1966 | St. Joseph's | East Omak | WA | This was a mission of St. Mary's Indian Mission in Omak. | |
1966 Eldon Bernard Schuster replaced Condon as Great Falls bishop (1967-1977). |
1968 | St. Paul's Indian Mission | Hays • Robinson was accused in a 2012 lawsuit of child sexual abuse at St. Paul's Indian Mission. (The timeframe is not clear in news reports.) |
MT | 2/2 | St. Paul's had a day grade school with 51-48 boys and 46-41 girls. |
1966 | 1968 | St. Thomas' | Lodge Pole | MT | This was a mission of St. Paul's INdian Mission in Hays. St. Thomas' had a religious vacation school with 65 students. | |
1966 | 1968 | St. Joseph's | Zortman | MT | This was a mission of St. Paul's Indian Mission in Hays. St. Joseph's had a religious vacation school with 10 students. | |
1968 Helena diocese. |
1972 | St. Ignatius' | St. Ignatius | MT | 4/5, 3/3, 1/2, 1/3 | |
1968 | 1972 | St. John Berchman's | Jocko | MT | This was a mission of St. Ignatius' in St. Ignatius, MT. | |
1968 | 1972 | St. Leonard's | Dixon | MT | This was a mission of St. Ignatius' in St. Ignatius, MT. | |
1970 | 1972 | Sacred Heart | Arlee | MT | This was a mission of St. Ignatius' in St. Ignatius, MT. | |
1972 Spokane diocese. |
1973 | St. Mary's Mission | Omak | WA | 3/3 | |
1972 | 1973 | St. Joseph's | East Omak | WA | This was a mission of St. Mary's Mission in Omak. | |
1973 Elden Francis Curtiss succeeded Hunthausen as Helena bishop (1976-1993). |
1981 | St. Ignatius' | St. Ignatius | MT | 2/3, 1/4, 2/4 | |
1973 | 1981 | St. John Berchman's | Jocko | MT | This was a mission of St. Ignatius' in St. Ignatius, MT. | |
1973 | 1979 | St. Leonard's | Dixon | MT | This was a mission of St. Ignatius' in St. Ignatius, MT. | |
1973 | 1981 | Sacred Heart | Arlee | MT | This was a mission of St. Ignatius' in St. Ignatius, MT. | |
1981 Boise City bishop was Sylvester William Treinen (1962-1988). |
1984 | Sacred Heart | DeSmet | ID | 2/3, 2/4 | This was a Coeur d'Alene Indian Mission. |
1981 | 1984 | Our Lady of Perpetual Help | Plummer | ID | This was a mission of Sacred Heart in DeSmet. | |
1981 | 1984 | St. Michael's | Worley | ID | This was a mission of Sacred Heart in DeSmet. | |
1984 | 1985 | Robinson is not indexed in the 1985 Directory. | ||||
1985 Portland in Oregon archbishop was Cornelius Michael Power (1974-1986). |
1986 | St. Luke's | Woodburn | OR | 3/3 | St. Luke's had a school with 246 students. |
1985 | 1986 | St. Agnes/Mision San Lucas | Hubbard | OR | This was a mission of St. Luke's in Woodburn. | |
1986 Great Falls-Billings bishop was Thomas Joseph Murphy (1978-1987), followed by Anthony Michael Milone (1987-2006). |
1988 | St. Thomas the Apostle | Harlem | MT | 1/1 | |
1986 | 1988 | St. Thomas Aquinas | Hogeland | MT | This was a mission of St. Thomas Aquinas in Harlem, MT. | |
1986 | 1988 | Sacred Heart | Belknap | MT | This was a mission of St. Thomas Aquinas in Harlem, MT. | |
St. Jude | Havre | MT | This assignment is per nwjesuits.org. | |||
1988 Tod David Brown was Boise City bishop (1988-1998). |
1993 | St. Stanislaus' | Lewiston | ID | 2/2 In residence. | St. Stanislaus' had a school with 160-170 students. |
1988 | 1993 | St. Joseph Regional Medical Center | Lewiston | ID | chaplain | |
1993 Spokane bishop was William Stephen Skylstad (1990-2010), followed by Blase Joseph Cupich (2010-). |
2014 | Regis Jesuit Community | Spokane | WA | Robinson died May 22, 2014. |
Sources: Official Catholic Directory (New York: P.J. Kenedy and Sons, 1956-2012) • Edmund J. Robinson, S.J. 50 Years in the Priesthood, Nwjesuits.org, 2005 |